The Rosarium @ Gypsy Hollow

What do you do with a dozen dead roses?

Do roses grow in the arctic?

There are yellow roses, red roses, white roses, pink roses and even a 
black and a green rose, but are there any blue roses?

Which of these words have nothing to do with roses?
Rosaniline
Roseola
Roseate
 
 

Wow, what a year!  For those of you who have visited before, you know I was concerned at the beginning of last year's growing season for the Topaz Jewel.    It had not weathered the previous winter well.  As spring wore on it was apparent that cancre had set in with a vengeance.  Randy made the decision to prune it back to a stub. 

Now, I've pulled porcupine quills from tender dog noses and sewed up the tiny hoof of a kid goat who got caught in a snare, without much ado.  But when I saw three little stubs sticking out of the bare ground, the longest not more than a couple of inches, I freaked. 

I was convinced it would die.  Topaz Jewel, after all, is rated zone 5 and we had planted it in zone 3.  Nevertheless, the little lady made it.  As you'll see, we had a great year for our second year roses and even the Topaz performed beyond our wildest imaginings. 

Most of the photos are of the 2nd year roses.  The point of this web site is to share with other far north gardeners a chronicle of  our personal successes and failures in gardening, particularly rose gardening, in the arctic and sub arctic region of Alaska. 

Generally, we are talking about zone 3.  Although we are having some success with roses and perennials that are rated zone 5.  I hope to have detailed reports posted here by fall of this year.  This will have given us three growing seasons and we will have more to say.

So, on to the Garden to view last summer's roses. 

The Rosarium @ Gypsy Hollow has been growing steadily since 1999.